Acromag AcroPack module with Xilinx Zynq MPSoC

The Acromag APZU series, available from Metromatics, expands Acromag’s offering of mini PCIe-based AcroPack modules with a programmable I/O solution featuring the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ multiprocessor system-on-a-chip (MPSoC). Three models are available offering a choice of digital I/O interfaces with 28 TTL, 20 TTL and 3 RS422/485, or 14 LVDS signals. These mezzanine modules mount on a variety of AcroPack carrier cards for PCIe, VPX and other platforms enabling developers to mix and match I/O combinations on a single board for embedded applications running on Linux, Windows or VxWorks operating systems. They are suitable for adaptive filtering, protocol conversion, simulation, image processing and sensor fusion applications.

Two dual-core ARM Cortex CPUs (A53 application processor and R5 real-time processor) deliver high-performance computation capability, while 154k logic cells provide plenty of FPGA processing blocks for hardware acceleration and compute-intensive tasks. Additional resources include large on-chip memory, external memory interfaces, and a rich set of peripheral connectivity interfaces. Gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0 and USB-UART interfaces are supported.